Security Comes In Force To The Strip

Las Vegas residents will sacrifice a bit of privacy in the name of security  we know, Franklin, we know  now that cameras will join the thousands of blinking lights that line The Strip. Bringing with them the promise of increased safety for visitors and possibly reduced business for a certainlate-night industry, the cameras come with a heavy aura advocates are desperately trying to dispel.

Security on the Strip just got more high-tech.

Thirty-seven surveillance cameras now sit atop traffic poles along a 4-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, part of an effort to boost safety in the tourist-heavy corridor.

The cameras  paid for by a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security  have been installed on poles from Russell Road to Sahara Avenue, said Lt. Jim Seebock of the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center. They will begin recording footage later this month.

These cameras are overt, Seebock said. They are going to be where people can see them. They are only capturing footage of people in the public domain.